🔥IVIF-Code-Interpretation

Provide a summary of open-source deep learning-based infrared and visible image fusion (IVIF) and some vision algorithms for those in the field of image fusion and computer vision.
(Survey, Code, Dataset, Evaluation and more).

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🚩 2026.9.17 Add 2026 CVPR/AAAI/ICML/ECCV/ACM MM/TPAMI/TIP/TNNLS/TMM/IJCV/InFFus/PR 50+ methods
🚩 2026.1.3
🚩 2025.11.4 Add URFusion[TIP 2025], SIBA[ICCV 2025], RIS-Fuse[ICCV 2025], TITA[ICCV 2025]
🚩 2025.9.25 Add ControlFusion[NeurIPS 2025]
🚩 2025.8.13 Add OmniFuse，PIDFusion, RDMFuse, RPFNet
🚩 2025.8.7 Add GrFormer, PFCFuse, ITFuse, SDCFusion, SDSFusion, LENFsuion, PromptFusion, MDA and a survey!
🚩 2025.7.31 Add GuideFuse, DDBFusion
🚩 2025.7.22 Add CVPR2025
🚩 2025.2.19 Add MaeFuse(TIP 2025)
🚩 2024.7.21 Add AGMFusion (!!!!)
🚩 2025.3.12 Add A degradation-aware guided fusion network for infrared and visible image
🚩 2025.3.12 Add Text-DiFuse
🚩 2025.3.7 Add SAM-guided multi-level collaborative Transformer for infrared and visible image fusion
🚩 2025.2.28 Add GIFNet (CVPR 2025)
🚩 2025.1.2 Add SRAFusion
🚩 2024.12.21 Add A2RNet(AAAI 2025)
🚩 2024.12.17 Add TeRF(ACM Multimedia 2024)
🚩 2024.12.9 Add GTMFuse
🚩 2024.12.3 Add CEFusion
🚩 2024.8.25 Add DUGAN, MVSFusion
🚩 2024.8.17 Add MMDRFuse (ACM 2024)
🚩 2024.8.4 Add FILM (ICML 2024)
🚩 2024.7.27 Add SimpleFusion, SHIP (CVPR 2024), FISCNet, MambaDFuse
🚩 2024.5.19 Add Text-IF, Diff-IF, TC-MoA, and MMIF-EMMA
🚩 2024.4.18 Add a general image fusion framework using multi-task semi-supervised learning
🚩 2024.4.11 Add some clarifications.
🚩 2024.4.2 Add MTDFusion, SFCFusion, MetaFusion.

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Content:

1. Survey

Year	Title
2024	Infrared and Visible Image Fusion: From Data Compatibility to Task Adaption🤗🤗
2023	Visible and Infrared Image Fusion Using Deep Learning 🤗🤗
2023	基于深度学习的图像融合方法综述 🤗🤗

2. 2026 IVIF method

Publication	Title
CVPR	CLDyN: Customized Fusion: A Closed-Loop Dynamic Network for Adaptive Multi-Task-Aware Infrared-Visible Image Fusion(CVPR 2026 Oral)
CVPR	FusionRegister: Every Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Deserves Registration(CVPR 2026)
CVPR	Beyond Strict Pairing: Arbitrarily Paired Training for High-Performance Infrared and Visible Image Fusion(CVPR 2026)
CVPR	EVAFusion: Bridging Human Evaluation to Infrared and Visible Image Fusion(CVPR 2026)
CVPR	DRFusion: Degradation-Robust Fusion: An Efficient Degradation-Aware Diffusion Framework for Multimodal Image Fusion in Arbitrary Degradation Scenarios(CVPR 2026)
CVPR	ReCoFuse: Ultra-Robust Image Fusion via Restorative Multi-Modal Diffusion Reciprocal Coupling(CVPR 2026)
CVPR	RegionFuse: Region-Adaptive Pixel Distribution Learning for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion(CVPR 2026)
CVPR	DPOFusion: Fusion in Your Way: Aligning Image Fusion with Heterogeneous Demands via Direct Preference Optimization(CVPR 2026)
CVPR	UniFusion: A Unified Image Fusion Framework with Robust Representation and Source-Aware Preservation(CVPR 2026)
CVPR	DECC: More Than Meets the Eye: A Unified Image Fusion Framework via Semantic-Pixel Entropy Trade-off for Zero-Shot Generalization(CVPR 2026)
CVPR	Intervention-Stable Fusion: Multi-Modal Image Fusion via Intervention-Stable Feature Learning(CVPR 2026)
CVPR	MagicFuse: Single Image Fusion for Visual and Semantic Reinforcement(CVPR 2026)
CVPR	DCMIF: Missing No More: Dictionary-Guided Cross-Modal Image Fusion under Missing Infrared(CVPR 2026)
CVPR	VideoFusion: A Spatio-Temporal Collaborative Network for Multi-modal Video Fusion and Restoration(CVPR 2026, video fusion)
CVPR	SDMFusion: Streaming Diffusion Model for Fast Infrared and Visible Video Fusion(CVPR 2026, video fusion)
AAAI	RFC: Robust Fusion Controller: Degradation-Aware Image Fusion with Fine-Grained Language Instructions(AAAI 2026 Oral)
AAAI	UP-Fusion: Text-guided Channel Perturbation and Pre-trained Knowledge Integration for Unified Multi-modality Image Fusion(AAAI 2026)
AAAI	CtrlFuse: Mask-Prompt Guided Controllable Infrared and Visible Image Fusion(AAAI 2026)
AAAI	ControlFuse: Instruction-Guided Multi-Granularity Controllable Image Fusion(AAAI 2026)
AAAI	MdaIF: Robust One-Stop Multi-Degradation-Aware Image Fusion with Language-Driven Semantics(AAAI 2026)
AAAI	AIDFusion: Revisiting Network Inertia: Dynamic Inertia Inhibition Coupled Multidimensional Periodicity for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion(AAAI 2026)
AAAI	HMMF: A Hybrid Space Model for Misaligned Multi-modality Image Fusion(AAAI 2026)
ICML	IDEAL: Difference-Aware Decision Learning for Multimodal Image Fusion(ICML 2026)
ICML	TEDFusion: Text-Driven Fusion for Infrared and Visible Images: Achieving Image Scene Adaptation on Hyperbolic Space(ICML 2026)
ICML	MobileFusion: Mobile-Friendly Infrared and Visible Image Fusion via Structural Re-parameterization(ICML 2026)
ICML	1D-Fusion: From 2D Grids to 1D Tokens: Reforming Shared Representations for Multimodal Image Fusion(ICML 2026)
ECCV	P²Fusion: Prompt-based Progressive Infrared-Visible Image Fusion via Dual-Prior Distillation(ECCV 2026)
ECCV	MAVFusion: Efficient Infrared and Visible Video Fusion via Motion-Aware Sparse Interaction(ECCV 2026, video fusion)
ACM MM	ConFusion: Continuous Fusion Space Learning for Fine-Grained Controllable Infrared and Visible Image Fusion(ACM MM 2026)
TPAMI	EvoFuse: Symbiotic Evolutionary Learning for Task-Adaptive Infrared and Visible Image Fusion(TPAMI 2026)
TPAMI	CDTFusion: Crossing Domain and Task for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion(TPAMI 2026)
TPAMI	Mask-DiFuser: A Masked Diffusion Model for Unified Unsupervised Image Fusion(TPAMI 2026)
TPAMI	DiTFuse: Towards Unified Semantic and Controllable Image Fusion: A Diffusion Transformer Approach(TPAMI 2026)
TIP	DSPFusion: Image Fusion via Degradation and Semantic Dual-Prior Guidance(TIP 2026)
TIP	LTOFusion: A Learning-to-Optimize Framework with Flow Matching for Unsupervised Image Fusion(TIP 2026)
TIP	SSVIF: Self-Supervised Segmentation-Oriented Visible and Infrared Image Fusion(TIP 2026)
TNNLS	LDFusion: Infrared and Visible Image Fusion with Language-Driven Loss and Knowledge Distillation(TNNLS 2026)
TMM	AdaSFFuse: Task-Generalized Adaptive Cross-Domain Learning for Multimodal Image Fusion(TMM 2026)
TMM	EGMT: Entity-Guided Multi-Task Learning for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion(TMM 2026)
IJCV	CRTFS: A Color Information Driven Collaborative Training of Dual Task Parallel Network for Visible and Thermal Infrared Image Fusion and Saliency Object Detection(IJCV 2026)
Imformation Fusion	GrFormer: A Novel Transformer on Grassmann Manifold for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion(Imformation Fusion 2026)
Imformation Fusion	AWFusion: All-weather Multi-Modality Image Fusion: Unified Framework and 100k Benchmark(Imformation Fusion 2026)
Imformation Fusion	SGDFuse: SAM-guided Diffusion Model for High-Fidelity Infrared and Visible Image Fusion(Imformation Fusion 2026)
Imformation Fusion	SPGFusion: Semantic Prior Guided Infrared and Visible Image Fusion via Pretrained Vision Models(Imformation Fusion 2026)
Imformation Fusion	RQCMFuse: A Reduced Biquaternion-Driven Collaborative Modeling Network of Infrared Saliency and Visible Color-Detail for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion(Imformation Fusion 2026)
Pattern Recognition	SETFusion: A Semantic Transformer for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion(Pattern Recognition 2026)
Pattern Recognition	CUDiff: Consistency and Uncertainty Guided Conditional Diffusion for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion(Pattern Recognition 2026)
Pattern Recognition	GDAFusion: Generative Representation Learning with Information Disentanglement and Global Alignment for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion(Pattern Recognition 2026)
Image and Vision Computing	MDCFusion: Enhancing Infrared and Visible Image Fusion through Multi-Scale Dense Convolutional Sparse Coding(Image and Vision Computing 2026)
Engineering Applications of AI	ALRTFusion: An Anisotropic Low-Rank Self-Attention Mechanism for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion(Engineering Applications of AI 2026)
Expert Systems with Applications	DAMFusion: Cross-modal Image Fusion via Dual Attention and Mamba(Expert Systems with Applications 2026)
Expert Systems with Applications	CAWM-Mamba: A Unified Model for Infrared-Visible Image Fusion and Compound Adverse Weather Restoration(Expert Systems with Applications 2026)
arXiv	AMG-Fuse: Multi-modality Image Fusion under Adverse Weather: Mask-Guided Feature Restoration and Interaction(arXiv 2026)
arXiv	RoES: Rotational Equivariant Selective-frequency Fusion for Multimodal Images(arXiv 2026)
Imformation Fusion	GrFormer: A Novel Transformer on Grassmann Manifold for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion

3. 2025 IVIF method

Publication	Title
TIP	RIS-Fuse: Highlight What You Want: Weakly-Supervised Instance-Level Controllable Infrared-Visible Image Fusion(TIP 2025) 🤗🤗🤗🤗
TIP	TITA: About: Balancing Task-invariant Interaction and Task-specific Adaptation for Unified Image Fusion(TIP 2025) 🤗🤗🤗🤗
TIP	SIBA: The Source Image is the Best Attention for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion(TIP 2025) 🤗🤗🤗🤗
TIP	URFusion: Unsupervised Unified Degradation-Robust Image Fusion Network(TIP 2025) 🤗🤗🤗🤗
NeurIPS	ControlFusion: A Controllable Image Fusion Framework with Language-Vision Degradation Prompts NeurIPS 2025🤗🤗🤗🤗
TPAMI	OmniFuse: Composite Degradation-Robust Image Fusion With Language-Driven Semantics(TPAMI 2025)
ACM MM	RPFNet: Residual Prior-driven Frequency-aware Network for Image Fusion(ACM MM 2025)
TMM	PID Controller-Driven Network for Image Fusion(TMM 2025) 🤗🤗🤗🤗
2025	RDMFuse: A Retinex Decomposition Model-Based Deep Framework for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion
Imformation Fusion	DDBFusion: An unified image decomposition and fusion framework based on dual decomposition and B ́ezier curves(Imformation Fusion 2025)
CVPR	DCEvo: Discriminative Cross-Dimensional Evolutionary Learning for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion(CVPR 2025)
CVPR	Every SAM Drop Counts: Embracing Semantic Priors for Multi-Modality Image Fusion and Beyond(CVPR 2025)
CVPR	Task-driven Image Fusion with Learnable Fusion Loss(CVPR 2025)
TIP	MaeFuse: Transferring Omni Features with Pretrained Masked Autoencoders for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion via Guided Training🤗🤗🤗🤗 (TIP 2025)
CVPR	GIFNet: One Model for ALL: Low-Level Task Interaction Is a Key to Task-Agnostic Image Fusion 🤗🤗🤗🤗 (CVPR 2025)
2025	Text-DiFuse: An Interactive Multi-Modal Image Fusion Framework based on Text-modulated Diffusion Model
2025	A degradation-aware guided fusion network for infrared and visible image
2025	SAM-guided multi-level collaborative Transformer for infrared and visible image fusion
TIP	SDSFusion: A Semantic-Aware Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Network for Degraded Scenes (TIP 2025)
TIP	Spatial-Frequency Enhanced Mamba for Multi-Modal Image Fusion🤗🤗🤗🤗

4. 2024 IVIF method

Year	Title
2024	AGMFusion: A Real-Time End-to-End Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Network Based on Adaptive Guidance Module 🤗🤗🤗🤗
2024	TextFusion: Unveiling the Power of Textual Semantics for Controllable Image Fusion 🤗🤗🤗
2024	Text-IF: Leveraging Semantic Text Guidance for Degradation-Aware and Interactive Image Fusion 🤗🤗🤗🤗
2024	LENFusion: A Joint Low-Light Enhancement and Fusion Network for Nighttime Infrared and Visible Image Fusion 🤗🤗🤗
2024	FILM: image Fusion via vIsion-Language Model
2024	TeRF: Text-driven and Region-aware Flexible Visible and Infrared Image Fusion
2024	MVSFusion: infrared and visible image fusion method for multiple visual scenarios
2024	MMDRFuse: Distilled Mini-Model with Dynamic Refresh for Multi-Modality Image Fusion 🤗🤗🤗🤗
2024	MDA: A Multi-scale Information Integration Framework for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion
2024	Probing Synergistic High-Order Interaction in Infrared and Visible Image Fusion
2024	Frequency Integration and Spatial Compensation Network for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion
2024	A general image fusion framework using multi-task semi-supervised learning 🤗🤗🤗🤗
2024	Diff-IF: Multi-modality image fusion via diffusion model with fusion knowledge prior 🤗🤗🤗🤗
2024	Task-Customized Mixture of Adapters for General Image Fusion
2024	Equivariant Multi-Modality Image Fusion
2024	SFCFusion: Spatial–Frequency Collaborative Infrared and Visible Image Fusion
2024	A semantic-driven coupled network for infrared and visible image fusion
2024	PromptFusion: Harmonized Semantic Prompt Learning for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion (IEEE/CAA JAS 2024)
2023	DDFM: Denoising Diffusion Model for Multi-Modality Image Fusion 🤗🤗🤗
2023	A Task-guided, Implicitly-searched and Meta- initialized Deep Model for Image Fusion 🤗🤗🤗
2023	Bi-level Dynamic Learning for Jointly Multi-modality Image Fusion and Beyond 🤗🤗🤗
2023	MetaFusion: Infrared and Visible Image Fusion via Meta-Feature Embedding from Object Detection
2023	SRAFusion: Semantic Region Adaptive Fusion of Infrared and Visible Images via Dual-DeepLab Guidance
2022	Fusion from Decomposition: A Self-Supervised Decomposition Approach for Image Fusion

5. AE-based IVIF method

Year	Title
2023	LRRNet: A Novel Representation Learning Guided Fusion Framework for Infrared and Visible Images 🤗🤗🤗
2023	MURF: Mutually Reinforcing Multi-modal Image Registration and Fusion
2023	CoCoNet: Coupled Contrastive Learning Network with Multi-level Feature Ensemble for Multi-modality Image Fusion
2023	Recurrent Correction Network for Fast and Efficient Multi-modality Image Fusion
2023	CAMF: An Interpretable Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Network Based on Class Activation Mapping
2023	DIVFusion: Darkness-free infrared and visible image fusion
2023	MUFusion: A general unsupervised image fusion network based on memory unit 🤗🤗
2023	SOSMaskFuse: An Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Architecture Based on Salient Object Segmentation Mask 🤗🤗
2023	Semantics lead all: Towards unified image registration and fusion from a semantic perspective 🤗🤗🤗
2022	Res2Fusion: Infrared and visible image fusion based on dense Res2net and double nonlocal attention models
2022	CUFD: An encoder-decoder network for visible and infrared image fusion based on common and unique feature decomposition
2022	Breaking Free from Fusion Rule: A Fully Semantic-driven Infrared and Visible Image Fusion
2021	SEDRFuse: A Symmetric Enocder-Decoder with Residual Network for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion
2021	RFN-Nest: An end-to-end residual fusion network for infrared and visible images
2021	Efficient and Interpretable Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Via Algorithm Unrolling
2020	NestFuse: An Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Architecture based on Nest Connection and Spatial/Channel Attention Models
2020	DIDFuse: Deep Image Decomposition for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion
2020	Classification Saliency-Based Rule for Visible and Infrared Image Fusion
2020	UNIFusion: A Lightweight Unified Image Fusion Network
2020	SMoA: Searching a Modality-Oriented Architecture for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion
2019	Densefuse: A Fusion Approach to Infrared and Visible Images 🤗🤗
2018	Infrared and Visible Image Fusion using a Deep Learning Framework

6. CNN-based IVIF method

Year	Title
2024	CEFusion: An Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Network Based on Cross-Modal Multi-Granularity Information Interaction and Edge Guidance
2024	SimpleFusion: A Simple Fusion Framework for Infrared and Visible Images
2024	PFCFuse: A Poolformer and CNN fusion network for Infrared-Visible Image Fusion
2023	GuideFuse: A Novel Guided Auto-Encoder Fusion Network for Infrared and Visible Images
2023	MTDFusion: A Multilayer Triple Dense Network for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion
2023	LE2Fusion: A novel local edge enhancement module for infrared and visible image fusion
2023	Multi-interactive Feature Learning and a Full-time Multi-modality Benchmark for Image Fusion and Segmentation 🤗🤗🤗
2023	LDRepFM: A Real-Time End-to-End Visible and Infrared Image Fusion Model Based on Layer Decomposition and Re-Parameterization
2023	An interactively reinforced paradigm for joint infrared-visible image fusion and saliency object detection 🤗🤗🤗
2022	Attention-Guided Polarization Image Fusion Using Salient Information Distribution
2022	PIAFusion: A Progressive Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Network Based on Illumination Aware
2022	Image fusion in the loop of high-level vision tasks: A semantic-aware real-time infrared and visible image fusion network 🤗🤗
2022	CLF-Net: "Contrastive Learning for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Network
2022	Unsupervised Misaligned Infrared and Visible Image Fusion via Cross-Modality Image Generation and Registration
2022	IPLF:A Novel Image Pair Learning Fusion Network for Infrared and Visible Image
2022	Learn to Search a Lightweight Architecture for Target-aware Infrared and Visible Image Fusion
2022	SuperFusion: A Versatile Image Registration and Fusion Network with Semantic Awareness
2022	DetFusion: A Detection-driven Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Network
2022	FLFuse-Net: A Fast and Lightweight Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Network Via Feature Flow and Edge Compensation for Salient Information 🤗🤗
2022	Multiscale Progressive Fusion of Infrared and Visible Images 🤗
2022	Heterogeneous Knowledge Distillation for Simultaneous Infrared-Visible Image Fusion and Super-Resolution 🤗
2021	STDFusionNet: An Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Network Based on Salient Target Detection 🤗🤗
2021	DRF: Disentangled Representation for Visible and Infrared Image Fusion
2021	Different Input Resolutions and Arbitrary Output Resolution: A Meta-Learning Based Deep Framework for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion 🤗🤗
2021	SDNet: A Versatile Squeeze-and-Decomposition Network for Real-Time Image Fusion
2021	MIFFuse: A Multi-level Feature Fusion Network for Infrared and visible Images 🤗
2020	IFCNN: A General Image Fusion Framework Based on Convolutional Neural Network
2020	FusionDN: A Unified Densely Connected Network for Image Fusion
2020	Rethinking the image fusion: A fast unified image fusion network based on proportional maintenance of gradient and intensity
2020	U2Fusion: A Unified Unsupervised Image Fusion Network 🤗🤗

7. GAN-based IVIF method

Year	Title
2025	A2RNet: Adversarial Attack Resilient Network for Robust Infrared and Visible Image Fusion
2024	DUGAN: Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Based on Dual Fusion Paths and a U-type Discriminator
2023	A Cross-scale Iterative Attentional Adversarial Fusion Network for Infrared and Visible Images
2023	Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Based on Multiclassification Adversarial Mechanism in Feature Space
2022	Target-aware Dual Adversarial Learning and a Multi-scenario Multi-Modality Benchmark to Fuse Infrared and Visible for Object Detection 🤗🤗
2022	Infrared and Visible Image Fusion via Interactive Compensatory Attention Adversarial Learning
2021	Coupled GAN with Relativistic Discriminators for Infrared and Visible Images Fusion
2021	Sematic-Supervised Infrared and Visible Image Fusion via Dual-Discriminator Generative Adversarial Network
2021	MFEIF: Learning a Deep Multi-scale Feature Ensemble and an Edge-attention Guidance for Image Fusion
2021	GANMcC: A Generative Adversarial Network with Multi-classification Constraints for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion
2021	GAN-FM: Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Using GAN With Full-Scale Skip Connection and Dual Markovian Discriminators
2019	FusionGAN: A generative adversarial network for infrared and visible image fusion
2019	DDcGAN:infrared and visible image fusion via dual-discriminator conditional generative adversarial network

8. Transformer-based IVIF method

Year	Title
2024	ITFuse: An interactive transformer for infrared and visible image fusion
2024	GTMFuse: Group-attention transformer-driven multiscale dense feature-enhanced network for infrared and visible image fusion
2023	PTET: A Progressive Token Exchanging Transformer for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion
2023	SFPFusion: An Improved Vision Transformer Combining Super Feature Attention and Wavelet-Guided Pooling for Infrared and Visible Images Fusion
2023	Rethinking the necessity of image fusion in high-level vision tasks: A practical infrared and visible image fusion network based on progressive semantic injection and scene fidelity
2023	CDDFuse: Correlation-Driven Dual-Branch Feature Decomposition for Multi-Modality Image Fusion 🤗🤗🤗
2023	DATFuse: Infrared and Visible Image Fusion via Dual Attention Transformer
2023	Cross-Modal Transformers for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion 🤗🤗🤗
2022	YDTR: Infrared and Visible Image Fusion via Y-shape Dynamic Transformer 🤗🤗
2022	SwinFuse: A Residual Swin Transformer Fusion Network for Infrared and Visible Images
2022	SwinFusion: Cross-domain Long-range Learning for General Image Fusion via Swin Transformer
2022	Image fusion transformer

9. Mamba-based IVIF method

Year	Title
2024	MambaDFuse: A Mamba-based Dual-phase Model for Multi-modality Image Fusion

10. Datasets

TNO, RoadScene, M3FD, MFNet, MSRS, LLVIP, IVS, HDO, AVIID,

11. Evaluation

Excellent code

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